Michelle Coleman Mayes, chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Law, speaks on Aug. 12 during the presentation of the ABA Medal—the association’s highest honor—to John Feerick. Past recipients of the medal, which has been awarded since 1929 to lawyers who have “rendered conspicuous service to the cause of American jurisprudence,” include Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Morris Dees, David Boies and Theodore B. Olson.